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Stephanie can be reached at szollshan berkshireeagle. Edit Collection Close. Edit Close. Log In. Photos: Pre-K, preschool and toddler programs at 18 Degrees in Pittsfield. Let's Get Started X. Get details. View Theme Schedule See the full schedule of themes and a brief summary for the curriculum year.
View themes. Find the perfect curriculum Use our comparison chart to explore our curricula options and choose what's right for your group. It contains a parent guide to daily activities, numbers, craft patterns, and a printable pack featuring the alphabet. With play-based activities, your child can learn his numbers, sounds, and letters. And it stands out with its weekly themed recipes for each lesson, which can be fun.
The program will keep your children occupied 4 days a week, Fridays being used for optional field trips and corresponding. A quality, research-based, creative curriculum for preschoolers is Mother Goose Time. Its teachings use songs, art, logic, and hands-on learning. Mother Goose Time is developmentally appropriate for young children that are 2.
The supplies are separated into daily packets. To illustrate, every lesson is packaged independently, and you can get students and children to work on the crafts, worksheets, activities, and other resources.
So, the teacher or family finds it hassle-free and time-saving with zero prep time. FunShine Express is a preschool curriculum aligned to early learning standards, designed to be used in the classroom.
When subscribing to the monthly digital plan, teachers receive ready-for-use lesson plans. That includes resources for teachers, material for circle time, physical health, art, and other life skills. And learners can play rearrange games with click-and-drag motions. Most importantly, this preschool program allows teachers to customize the curriculum to fit their students by editing or writing activities and searching thousands of additional activities.
Of course, you can choose not to do some activities to provide the kids with more relaxed learning experiences. A teacher can record observations during activities, assign performance levels, upload videos and photos, and even print or merely view the individual assessment records for a student.
Little Learning Box is a preschool curriculum for classroom use curated for young children, 2 to 4-year-olds specifically. Children will find the activities interesting, and teachers will find them easy-to-use. And as is the custom, each month has a theme, such as family, senses, or cooking. And each day is planned with projects, books as in the book list, crafts, and activities so that young children improve their skills.
A Year of Playing Skillfully is a wonder-based preschool curriculum for childhood development in printed book or eBook form. Also, it can be used in a classroom, daycare center, or at home. That means adults can group kindergarten with early elementary children. This curriculum provides children with invaluable learning opportunities to develop multiple skills, social motor, emotional, or rational skills.
As a research-based learning preschool curriculum, A Year of Playing Skilfully helps children develop skills in several fields, like language and literacy, art and rhymes, science and sensory, math and manipulatives, outdoor play, gross motor, and social, emotional, and home life. It makes use of research-based success predictors to offer teachers an accurate assessment.
And it implements customized, focused, and playful instruction for the benefit of children. The framework of these interactions must be goal-directed and intentional. To explain, every section of the day could become a learning experience.
Also, the literature studied is relevant to the vocabulary and concepts. All the activities will work in a small or large daycare setting, a preschool or even in your own home if you are a stay at home Mom who is lucky enough to be home with her child.
All children need daily stimulation and our program provides a lot of fun interesting activities that are developmentally appropriate. Getting Ready For School. We have found that when children are having fun and enjoy what they are doing, they learn quickly, which is what our program is all about, teaching the children through fun activities that are developmentally appropriate.
Our program is like providing a mini nursery school along with a preschool program in your own home, daycare or preschool. Parents like the idea that their child is having fun participating in daily activities, art projects, songs, finger plays and games.
Our fun hands on activities are teaching them and getting them ready for school with our online preschool program. Our preschool curriculum program provides fun daily educational activities such as circle time or group time, art time, words to songs or rhymes, letter time, number time, science discovery activities, large motor activities and a special activity for five days per week.
We start our morning program off each day with circle time. Our preschool circle time starts our daily program. Next, you may need to refer to the daily lesson plans on how to do the activities for that day. To begin our circle time or group time activities, we try to get all the children to sit together in a circle on the floor. We never force any child to participate, but we do try to encourage participation. Our circle time activities could be a talk or discussion but usually involves a fun activity such as a learning activity, games, singing songs, hearing a story, etc.
To begin our circle time, we discuss with the children the weather outside. We have a large felt calendar with numbers that have Velcro on their backs to stick to the calendar.
The Toddlers are too young to understand what a calendar is but they still have fun sticking up the numbers. Next, we have one blank calendar for each child. After they place the day onto the calendar, such as today is May 18th and they place the circle sticker with the number 18 on it on their calendar, then we have the children find the number one on the calendar and point to it and then we begin counting all the numbers that are on our calendars.
Have the children point to each number and count up to the circle sticker number, such as number At the end of the month they can take their calendars home. Seven days of the week song. After we have completed the calendar we sing the seven days of the week song which is shown below. Children like repetition so don't be afraid to sing any song the children really like on a daily basis, but try to add a few new ones each week.
After circle time we have the children come to the table and sit down to get ready for art time. If we are going to use glue I place the glue into tiny plastic cups. I have found that the sample size of play dough cans work great for this. I then proceed to pass out child sized paint brushes for the young preschool children to use and for the older preschoolers we offer them smaller brushes.
If we are going to paint I make sure each child has some type of paint shirt on. If you do not have enough paint shirts, you can always use an old sweat shirt and cut off the arms. Anything will work. You will also want some rags ready. We use our old washcloths for paint rags. You may find it works best to keep a wet rag handy for spills or for a child who is done before the others. Or you may want to have a dish pan with a small amount of water in it for the children who finish early can rinse off until they can get into the bathroom to wash up with soap and warm water.
Preschool Learning Activities: Above are six examples of some of our preschool pre reading activities. These activities are made from easily accessible materials and provide a fun learning experience for the children. Our program also offers other types of learning activities such as worksheets, coloring pages, printable games, puzzles, bug hunt, ant farm, nature walk and other fun ideas.
These activities are to teach the children about sharing, numbers, alphabet, shapes, colors and much more! The activities shown above may not be available for the month you are purchasing but similar activities are available for each month that are developmentally appropriate.
Math Activities: Our preschool program also provides hands on math activities.
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